Oops, sent my email half-baked, by mistake...
The second thing was just a minor suggestion of a tweak of:
> In the four-and-half years that I have used JDE, I have
> received thousands
> of communications regarding my package. Yours is the first to
> mention J.D.
> Edwards. This plus the facts that J.D. Edwards let its
> registration of JDE
> with the U.S. Patent Office expire in 1998 and that it has
> not attempted
> unto now to contact me regarding my use of JDE constitute prima facie
> evidence that my use of JDE has not, in fact, created any
> confusion or harm
> to J.D. Edwards.
To:
> In the four-and-half years that I have used JDE, I have
> received thousands
> of communications regarding my package. Yours is the first to
> mention J.D.
> Edwards.
This fact - in conjunction with the 1998 lapse of J.D. Edward's USPTO
trademark registration, and the lack of any action from J.D. Edwards
regarding my use of JDE during the past four years - provides compelling
prima facie evidence that my use of JDE has not, in fact, created any
confusion or harm to J.D. Edwards.
Iain.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Huxley
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: 'Paul Kinnucan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Response Draft 2
>
>
> Hi Paul --
>
> I think the 2nd draft is great; a minor suggestion, tho, is
> to reorder this sentence to emphasize the somewhat restricted
> scope of JDE's meaning within the emacs community etc:
>
> From:
>
>
> > On the other hand, the acronym JDE has become synonymous
> over the last
> > four-and-a-half years with the Java Development Environment
> > for Emacs in
> > the Emacs and Open Source software communities where I and my
> > package are
> > well known.
>
> To:
>
> > On the other hand, in the Emacs development community (a
> network of programmers who contribute and release software
> voluntarily, without fee), the acronym JDE has become well
> known; over the last four and a half years, it has become
> synonymous with the Java Development Environment for Emacs.
>
> Also, just a minor rewording:
>
>
> > I therefore respectfully request that you not contest my
> > right to use the
> > acronym JDE further. By so doing, J.D. Edwards would show the
> > Emacs and
> > Open Source communities that J.D. Edwards is a good corporate
> > citizen. An
> > examination of my web page should convince J.D. Edwards that
> > my usage of
> > this acronym in no way creates the impression that I am in any way
> > associated with J.D. Edwards or that I am offering any
> > software or service
> > that competes with a J.D. Edwards offering. However, I would
> > be willing to
> > include an explicit disclaimer of any association with J.D.
> > Edwards on my
> > web page.
> >
> > I will be away on vacation next week and will not be able to
> > respond to
> > J.D. Edwards' response to this letter until the following week.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> > Paul Kinnucan
> >
> >
>
